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Got to do it for GCSE PE so thought i'd ask if there has been anything from swindon within the last 3-4 years? :)

no none at all. end of essay.

"Any think"?

Good luck for English

Im thick as shit, gonna need all the luck i can get :L

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Nope...but i will be waring my badge to Millwall!!...seen it all now.

Yes. There's a different forum for that. Google Swindon active service. Just don't post a thread saying you're doing a project and want some info. They won't like it.

you aint gonna get the info you require on a public forum.infact you should change your essay topic i think.

Ahh ok, cheers anyway all.

Search Google is my suggestion, had to do a project on football and hooliganism a while back for college and found shed loads on it with about 2/3 weeks worth of study. Was a waste as I left the course just before it had to be handed in. I'll see if I can find any of the info at home, then upload it or as its printed pass it on, on a match day?

The most recent incidents to make it into local news have been the Cardiff pre-season friendly and Southampton away. A google search will lead you to the relevant articles. Although neither goes into great detail.

I know a lot of details of the Cardiff ruck  ;)

Yeah I saw a bit of the action that day. Was in town with my parents and gf and saw the Swindon boys marching towards Cardiff who were in Sir Dans. It was obvious something was going to happen. The police did get between them but a few chairs went flying.

You obviously saw a different incident...

Yeah I knew more happened later.

This was about an 45 mins maybe even an hour before kick off.

Have they all been sentenced yet? Last I heard the case kept getting delayed and they're all banned in the meantime.

Have a look at the Inn on the Green Incident when we played Bristol Rovers away, I was there and that was NOT pretty.

And there was the fighting in the CG and by Regent Circus at the Home game before that. And revenge for Town at the Home game after...

And the full and frank discussion with Poxford outside Paddington station 2 years ago

http://swindonlad1.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=general&thread=525&page=1

have to register to view that, ghanimah.

Womens Fa cup final on sky now. Expect to see a running pitch battle!

Bitches!

Nah, it's usually just handbags with them lot

been a few incidents this weekend.is it back on the rise again?
lads seem to be coked up, rather than boshing e's nowadays.is that a factor?

Prehaps its because its the end of the season and emotions are running high but there have definatley been more incidents than normal recently.

Always happens this time of the season. Everyone comes out for one last go. Plus people will always want to lash out if they've just been relegated, or if they've missed out on promotion/play-offs.

Still can't believe those 30-odd Brentford in the Shrivvy Rd yesterday. Completely unopposed they were, bowling around like they owned the place. They should've tried it on round by the hotel, or towards the station. Will that be the start of a bit of a rivalry?

I doubt it, back in 81, we played them last game of the season needing a point to stay up.

They had a crew of about 20 lads who thought they'd go on the Shrivenham Road terrace up by the TE, where there was a fence....little did they know that a group of Town lads, had vacated the TE, and were waiting for them, they got a good kicking all along the terrace.  Well funny.

Never been too much of a problem with Brentford, who are generally a decent bunch.

Was in the townend and didnt arrive till late, what happened?

Haha like it. Yeh I've been there loads of times & it's always been a good crack with never a hint of trouble. That's why I asked really.


Yeh we were there too - I didn't mean that to sound like there was actual trouble, but they charged a couple of times and no-one did anything (apart from 4 or 5 that ran from them). I looked & we didn't really have any lads around at the time - like I said they were bowling around unopposed, but if they did it by the hotel etc they would've been dealt with.

If this was the 70s / 80s it wouldn't have got a mention. The reason they were unopposed is where they did it. Like a lot of other people I had my daughter with me and I wasn't going to respond as I didn't feel threatened. If I did feel threatened (and probably the same for a lot of others as well ) then its a much a different ball game.

i stood there with my mate giggling, thought they were going to rob crystal tips of her takings.

That's because they did !

A few swindon "lads" ran at them, and the Brentford went "boo !!!"

Our so called boys shat themselves !

That's what I said! Twice! It fucking would've got a mention because if it was the 70's/80's they would've got an instant response. None of this "I didn't feel threatened", it would've been "come on, they've charged at Town fans TWICE, let's have the cunts." Charging at people is fighting talk in anyone's language for fuck's sake. Like Fred said - we stepped aside and let them own the place for a few minutes.

i remember around 5 watford fans swinging punches at town fans in the late 80's out the back of the shrivvy road.our fans did nothing, and those 5 blokes took the piss really.oxford did the same in the same location

Those situations can happen at most grounds.. I've seen Swindon fans doing something similar at away games over the years. Bournemouth and Gillingham springs to mind in recent years.

You're obviously going to get incidents like that, but you were a hell of a lot luckier if you got away with it in those days. It's all about the timing.

Yeah but you get caught fighting and you get banned.

That was my immediate response to my mate when he articulated his desire to twat a couple of them.

grimsby fans had a mini riot.cheeky punch on a copper made me laugh,but the assailant i think will get caught.

yeah just saw that, saw an advertising board go flying too! mental bastards.